BC India 2018: Wirtgen Group showcases premium solutions from a single source

The exhibition focuses on innovative machines and technologies for road construction, road rehabilitation, the mining and processing of commodities and mineral raw materials as well as for building material recycling.

The Wirtgen Group has maintained a strong presence in India for more than 20 years through its local sales and service companies. At its local production facility with adjacent workshop right outside Pune, the Group also manufactures local machine models. They round out the wide range of products manufactured for the global market at the Wirtgen, Vögele, Hamm, Kleemann and Benninghoven brand headquarters in Germany.

Wirtgen India, the local sales and service company, also operates a modern Training Center for the targeted transfer of know-how about the market-leading Wirtgen Group technologies. Not only does Wirtgen India’s own specialist staff receive ongoing training, customers also benefit directly from what they learn at the center in their daily job-site operations.

India remains one of the world’s largest and most important growth markets. A variety of road construction projects are being implemented under current infrastructure policy, which is geared towards maintaining and expanding the infrastructure nationwide. Together with efficient construction methods, innovative, high-performance machine technologies can help to safeguard the functionality of the traffic routes in the long term. “To optimally support our customers in meeting the challenges they face, we have invested heavily in the Pune site in recent years to significantly expand production and usable space. We have also steadily expanded our product range for the Indian market to include locally manufactured machine models,” explains Ramesh Palagiri, Managing Director of Wirtgen India. For example, Vögele pavers and Kleemann screens have also been manufactured in Pune for several years, alongside the Hamm 311 compactors and HD 99 rollers.

The Wirtgen Group subsidiary in India has also expanded its sales and service network to more than 20 bases. And not without reason, since customers value more than just the Group’s premium machines: “With our reliable service and on-site support, customers are ideally positioned to take on any project, work profitably and deliver high quality,” says Palagiri.

As managing director of the subsidiary, he is very much looking forward to bauma Conexpo India, and already invites visitors to drop by the Wirtgen Group exhibition area. “Our customers, both current and future, can look forward to a tailored package of solutions for the entire road construction cycle. Wirtgen Group applications experts from India and the Wirtgen, Vögele, Hamm and Kleemann brand headquarters in Germany are always available to answer any questions customers may have,” says Palagiri.